On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Andrew Helm wrote:
> It looks good, but is it safe? Can you return a pointer to a static
> variable in the function? (Or rather, not "can" you, but is it going
> to mess up any compilers/platforms, that is, is such a thing okay
> in ANSI C?).
As someone pointed out a week or two ago, some libc functions (asctime was
the one I think) return a pointer to a static char array. That's one of
the main reasons most libraries aren't thread-safe, but if you aren't
using threads, it's perfectly ok as long as you act on the result before
calling the function again.
Sam
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